Combined slide and button loop for overalls



Jan. 12 1926.

W. M. HUESEMAN COMBINED SLIDE AND BUTTON LOOP FOR OVERALLS Filed June 14, 1924 Patented Jan. 12, 1926.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM M. HU'ESEMAN, )F DILLSBORO, INDIANA.

COMBINED SLIDE AND BUTTON LOOP FOR OVERALLS.

Application filed June M, 1924. Serial No. 720,022.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat. I, WILLIAM M. HUESE- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dillsboro, in the county of Dearborn and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Slide and Button Loops for Overalls, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to strap fastening devices and more particularly to a combined slide and button loop for employment upon the shoulder or Suspender straps of a pair of overalls. Ordinarily, overalls are equipped with button loops which are engageable with the buttons on the bib of the overalls, and the shoulder or suspender straps are provided, in addition to the said loops, with adjustable slides to take up the slack in the said straps. This, however, entails considerable expense, and frequently some little diihculty is experienced in taking up the slack in the shoulder straps. Therefore, the present invention has as one of its important objects to provide, in asingle article, means for attaining all of the advantages which are present in the usual button loop and slide, and, at the same time, contill siderably lessening the cost of the means provided for tensioning and connecting the shoulder straps.

Another object of the invention is to provide a combined button loop and slide which ,may be readily applied to the shoulder straps or a pair of overalls and may be quickly adjusted to any desired point in the length of the straps, and the loop member then engaged with the respective buttons upon the bib oi the garment, further adjustment of the, device with relation to the straps being attained at any time desired and without the necessity of disengaging the loop memher from the button.

Another object of the invention is to provide a combined slide and button loop for overalls which will not inconvenience or" discommode the wearer by rubbing the collar bone or shoulders, as is frequently the case in the use of a separate slide and a separate l theaccompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of the combined slide. and loop embodying the in vention applied to one ofthe shoulder straps of a pair of overalls and connected with the button upon the bib oi the overalls.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view taken one upper corner of the bib of the of the slide being formed from one piece, and y the cross bar of the slide being formed from another piece. The button loop which is indicated in general by the numeral 1, includes a bight 2 which is formed by bending the piece of wire from which the loop is fashioned, at a point substantially midway between its ends, to arcuate form, the side portlons of the loop being deflected inwardly toward each other as at 3, to provide the usualrestricted throat 4 bove the inwardly deflected portions 3, the side members of the loop are outwardly curved as at 5, so as to permit of the ready introduction of the button into the loop, the space between the said portions 5 being greater than the diameter of the button, and the diameter of the bight portion 2 of the loop being of less diameter than the button. At the upper ends of the portions 5 of the button loop, the wire comprising the loop is bent to extend outwardly in opposite directions providing portions 6 constitutin the lower sides of the rectangular oblong trams 7 constituting the frame of the slide of the article, the strands of wire being further more bent upwardly at right angles to the portions 6 to term the ends 8 of the said frame and being then bent inwardly at right angles toward each other, as at 9, to form the top member of the said frame. The portiens 9 are preferably enclosed at and adjacent their ends, by a sleeve 10 which serves to render the upper portion of the frame rigid and prevent relative displacement of the said portions 9.1 I

The bar of the slide is indicated in general by-the numeral 11 and is other length of wire which is bent at its ends to provide terminal eyes 12 which slidably engage the end members 8 of the frame oi.

the slide.

lln Figure 1 of the drawing, the numeral 13 indicates one of the shoulder straps of a pair of overalls, the numeral 14 a portion of overalls,

and t numer l 15 the usual button which above the bight.-

formed from antill llll

is secured to the corner portion of the bib. any point in the length of the strap 13 so As illustrated in this figure and in Figure 2 that the desired tension may be imposed of the drawing, the article embodying the upon the strap and the bib of the overalls.

invention is assembled with the shoulder By this arrangement, the necessity of pro-.

5 strap by inserting the shoulder strap rearviding separate slides and button loops is enwardly throughthe frame 7 of the slide and tirely obviated, thereby eflecting a considerbetween the lower portion 6 of the said able economy in the production of the garframe and the bar 11, the strap being then ment as a whole, it being understood, howpassed behind the said bar 11 and upwardly ever, that the article may be adapted to any i and forwardly and over the top member 9 ordinary pair of overalls in lieu of the slide of the frame. The article is then adjusted and button loop heretofore employed.

I along the stra ,until the desired adjustment Having thus described the invention, what is attained, hereupon the button loop is I claim is: grasped and engaged with the button 15. An article of the class described compris- 5 When so engaged, the strap 13will be subing a body portion formed from a strand of stantially taut, and the pull between the said wire bent intermediate its length to provide strap and the bib 14 will result in a tendency a U-shaped button receiving loop and having of the article to slide downwardly upon the the upwardly extending arms of said loop strap, but due to the manner in which the bent outwardly and then upwardly and instrap is passed about the bar 11 and the top wardly to provide a strap receiving eye exmember .9 of the slide frame, the portion of tending transversely of said loop and beyond the strap passing between the said bar and opposite sides thereof, a sleeve fitted upon said top member of the frame will be fricthe inturned end portions of said wire strand tionally gripped between these parts and, to reinforce the upper portion of said eye likewise, the portion of the strap which is and retain the said inturned end portions in passed over the forward side of the top memalinement with each other, and a cross bar her 9 of the frame will be frictionally enextending longitudinally of said eye and "gaged and pressed rearwardly by the porhaving its ends formed into eyes loosely tion of the strap immediately above and in mounted upon the portions of said wire 5 front of the bar 11. It will be evident at this strand at the ends of the eye and mounting point that the article embodying the inventhe cross bar for vertical sliding movement. tion comprises not only a button loop but In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. also a slide and that it may be adjusted to WILLIAM M. HUESEMAN. [1 s.] 

